1. Start Microsoft Windows Explorer. Click the Address bar, type My Computer, and press the Enter Key, and you will see all the drives and folders available on your computer. Navigate to where the page you created is currently located. Note that going to the folder by selecting File, Open won't work - you have to navigate to the page with Explorer.
    
2. Click once on the file you want to upload to your web site to highlight it. As in any Windows program, you can select multiple files by holding down the Shift or Ctrl key as you click on files. Be sure to include any graphics files (see Hour 7, "Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics," and Hour 8, "Putting Graphics on a Web Page") that need to go with the HTML file.
   
   
    
3. Select Edit, Copy
    
4. Now click the Address bar again in Windows Explorer and enter the site address in the following format below. Click Enter
   
   ftp://student.ins.siskiyous.edu/csci/csci28a/useraccount/
   
   
    
5. A Log On As window will appear. Enter your User name: and Password: - Use the following format for your user name - ins/useraccount. Click Log on
   
   
    
6. Wait until the server folder is opened in Windows Explorer, and the select Edit, Paste. The file(s) will be transferred from your hard drive to the web server
    
7. Test your page by opening up Firefox of Internet Explorer and enter you site address in the Address bar. Use the following format for your site address:
   
   http://student.ins.siskiyous.edu/csci/csci28a/useraccount/filename.htm
   
   

Helpful Thoughts & Ideas:

• It may be easier to work in two instances of Windows Explorer.
• Check to make sure all of your relative and absolute links work.